Admiral Stockdale and Hanoi Jane

Here's an interesting comment on the vast difference between an American hero and an American traitor.

Here is yet another case of the kind of bizarre juxtaposition that continues to characterize the Vietnam War well into the first decade of the new century. I refer on the one hand to the recent loss of Admiral James B. Stockdale, a highly decorated Navy aviator and prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese for seven grueling years. His funeral services were held, appropriately, on the Navy carrier the USS Ronald Reagan with the full military honors the Medal of Honor winner deserved.

Meanwhile, in the Peoples Republic of Hollywood actress Jane Fonda announced that she is launching an antiwar crusade – on a 1960s-style vegetable-oil-powered bus – in order to protest continuing American military operations in Iraq. Recall that Fonda earned the sobriquet “Hanoi Jane” after being photographed posing in a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun emplacement grinning vacuously, empty head adorned with an NVA pith helmet with a blazing red star. She also abused American POWs on this visit, demanding publicly that they denounce their “crimes against the brave, peace-loving people of North Vietnam.

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